If your climate control is on "defrost" when its 20 degrees out, you are running the air conditioner. Yes, even though the temp selector is on HOT. Cars run the A/C when on defrost to dehumidify the air blown on the windshield.
If you've ever had a car with non-functioning A/C in the northern states, then you already know that the difference is remarkable when you try to clear the windshield. (As opposed to clearing it with a functioning A/C).
1.2 GHZ CPU 512 MB RAM GeForce4 Ti 4200 (128 MB) Win2000
Since your not using a high performance computer, how can you expect top notch results? Increase your CPU a gig or more, double or quadruple your RAM, and use a non-budget video card. The Ti4200's performance is less than stellar.
WITH RESPECT TO ANY NEW TIVO SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION ACTIVATED ON OR AFTER SEPTEMBER 6, 2005, YOU AGREE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE TIVO SERVICE FOR NO LESS THAN 12 MONTHS (THE "SERVICE COMMITMENT"). IF YOU FAIL TO MEET THE SERVICE COMMITMENT BY CANCELLING YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE TIVO SERVICE (OR IF TIVO TERMINATES YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE TIVO SERVICE DUE TO A BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT), YOU AGREE THAT TIVO MAY CHARGE YOU A $150 EARLY TERMINATION FEE, AND YOU AGREE TO PAY ANY SUCH EARLY TERMINATION FEE.
How about this situation: Purchased a Tivo in Dec 2004. Used and paid for the service until July 2005. Dispute ensued with the cable company regarding overbilling, (specifically after thirty-seven phone calls and 2 certified letters, they STILL failed to change the cable subscription to basic digital after one of those promotions where you get (EVERYTHING) for $29.99/month for 3 months....
Well the everything part never changed after I called at the end of 3 months, and the bill went to over $120/month. So I unplugged it, and cancelled the service (THAT they seemed to get). The court date is pending, and of course I'll win, but in the meantime I cancelled the TIVO and went on an anti-TV crusade for the summer. Moving in December to new digs and will get the even more psychotic dish. This agreement seems to apply to me. Were it not for the flexibility of the TIVO month-to-month, I would have thrown $150 down the crapper..... nuts to that. I'm not resubscribing... I'm ebaying mine to cut my losses.
I work at a place that manufactures "saltwater" chlorine generators. Essentially its a 20-28V variable power supply pushing 8 amps through a "cell" which is really just 7-13 "blades" made of a platinum alloy, fit into a length of PVC pipe. You fit the "cell" into your swimming pools filter line (on the return side), add 300 lbs of salt to your swimming pool, apply the current from the power supply to the cell, and viola! No more need to buy chlorine!
Only difference between this and that tech is that we use salt as the impurity to facilitate current flow, and this device uses potassium hydroxide or hydrochloric acid.
The current splits the NaCl, into Na, and Cl, the Cl does the work of reducing or oxidizing impurities in the pool water, then combines back with the free Na.
Our supply peaks at 250W, and I know some of your car radio systems have single 250W amplifiers, so I doubt that this would bog down your electrical system. Simply put in a bigger (or a second) battery, and a high output alternator for $100 along with it, and the electrical side should be taken care of.
Publix did it (while not national, they are pretty big in the SE USA) - they shut down something like 2 years ago. It was neat to have everything home delivered:)
I've also toyed with the idea of my own personal "beer-livery" service. But just on the local level, and I don't know how I could keep people from ordering, that don't live within a reasonable driving distance.
I would agree in theory, in my particular car, a 1989 Pontiac Firebird V6 Auto with OD(long live the Third Gen!) the "sweet spot" in terms of engine RPM happens right around 48-50 MPH. Thats where I am in the highest gear, and the lowest RPM. I'm certain that there are other factors in play at slightly higher RPM, or 55 MPH, like more engine vacuum, EGR valve activation and so on.
Of course the following applies directly to me, I carry around about 600 lbs of equipment in the hatch (jacks, tools, various electronic boxes and or computers that weigh a ton at any time.)
So if I clean all that stuff out of my car, my 25MPG will improve by 12% to 28MPG?
Remove Excess Weight
Avoid keeping unnecessary items in your vehicle, especially heavy ones. An extra 100 pounds in your vehicle could reduce your MPG by up to 2%. The reduction is based on the percentage of extra weight relative to the vehicle's weight and affects smaller vehicles more than larger ones.
Well effing DUH! The elementary laws of electromagnetism, electronics, and the principles of radio are not even taxed! Wanna test this another way? Get on a high speed train and make a cell phone call, or just drive on the freeway really fast and do the same. IT IS JUST ORDINARY RADIO!!!!!!!
Now that that is out, did they really think it might not work?
Here is a link to a late 2003 transistor build that topped 500 ghz. They've been making transistors well into microwave range since the 60's. I've heard of people talking via amateur radio using the 100+ghz band quite regularly, so I know for sure that we've been able to break 100 ghz for a decade easily.
600Ghz is only a few dozen ghz more than the 509 ghz build of a year and a half ago.
It's not the distance light can travel in that time period that matters. Typically its also not a "signal" every 1.6 picoseconds, its a change in polarity or electromotive force (i.e. Volts). You would utilize such a device more efficiently in class C operation, where the transistor is biased above ground, and only conducts for 180 degrees.
Think of it like a hose that you squeeze and let go of 600 billion times a second. The electrons don't have to necessarily change direction, just magnitude (and following ohms law, current) 600 billion times a second.
We have an "unknown" brand, as in there is no makers name on our voting machines, here in Broward County Florida. We are given a yellow slip of paper looking much like a raffle ticket - after clearing the registration people who check your name in a book, and you sign.
The lady puts a device the size of a paperback into the side of my voting machine, which after about 30 seconds brings up a ballot. She explains that when I'm done, I should review, and press the blinking red VOTE button.
When I'm done, I press vote, and after 10 seconds, it thanks me for voting, and goes back to a blank screen.
Makes me think the voting is actually centralized.
Try using evaporative cooling, like a nuclear cooling tower for your PC.
That'll get it a few degrees below ambient, but you have to keep refilling it.
Hmmm faster than lightspeed. Mate two 9-volts pos-neg and throw it really hard?
Of course that won't work, because electricity travels NEAR the speed of light. So why do headlights work when I'm driving? Technically I'm shining a light, which is traveling AT the speed of light. But I'm also moving my car. And at that same token, if I'm driving west, the rotation of the earth should give the light coming out of my headlights a bit more speed as well. Factor in revolution, solar system movement, galaxy expansion, universe expansion, doppler effect, my headlights should travel backwards in time!
Touche. I just had a thought when I read that. When the speed of electrons through a conductor becomes a limit, perhaps the cpu and the rest of the electronics will start running behind. i.e. clock cycle happens, and another starts before the first has propagated. It should still get there, just maybe not before another one is on its way. At that point I should hope we are working on ways to get more done each clock cycle.
I tend to like the speed CPU's are at these days. The old Pentium 133-166, and more particularly the P2 350-450 and all those K6's caused quite a bit of interference back in there day in the VHF range. Shielded cases be damned! I don't even know where my case cover is these days.
As electricity travels through a conductor, or semi-conductor, all of the electrons move as whole. Example: Imagine a wire 8 miles long, if you insert a signal at one end at 6 GhZ the first electron jumps atoms, and influences that atoms electrons to jump to the next one. This continues at quite near the speed of light. The frequency at which this occurs only matters because of the so-called "skin effect" (current tends to travel more and more on the outside skin of a conductor, the higher in frequency of such alternating current.
So in other words, it wouldn't matter if the CPU were operating at 250GhZ. It's wavelength does not limit "how far the signal goes". The signal will go anywhere there is a conductor.
Wavelength (very basically, the inverse of frequency, given in meters travelled by "one" electron in one direction during one cycle, if the inverse is taken in Hz) at 3.6GhZ is very short. While that one electron may not travel the entire distance through a CPU, it WILL influence the other electrons in that conductor or semi conductor.
In conclusion, you may be correct that a single ELECTRON may not traverse the entire CPU, but rest assured that the signal certainly will.
My old employer (1998-2002) had these all over the place. Very high res pan and zoom color cameras. The only effect was to give the security guards who literally sat in the booth, something to look at.
Most of their time was spent trying to look down females shirts, or to spot the occasional panty flash when they bent down (It was a call center...)
Not even close. I wear armor which has been imbued by a Reactive Ablative Arcanium Armor Tincture in Dark Age of Camelot. It basically has a chance to create a magical shell, which absorbs 50% of damage taken for a total of 100 hit points.
I find it completely unacceptable that there is seemingly NO WAY to independently verify an election with these machines. Apparently, so much trust is placed in them, that a "recount isn't necessary" because the machines are flawless. Gimme a break! The elections officials also are unaware of the issue as well, trying to sidestep the issue at hand, that they put in a system that cannot be verified.
"The machines, made by Election Systems & Software of Omaha, Neb., fail to provide a consistent electronic "event log" of voting activity when asked to reproduce what happened during the election, state officials said."
So in other words, every vote is not entered into a separate event log due to a bug. So say the system crashes midday, they are then unable to verify the votes cast, because the backup event log is not 100% accurate. I am guessing the log is for a manual recount, and it likely ensures that the system cannot be tampered with... Say it doesn't write 1 of every 5 Kerry votes, then it doesn't write any Nader votes. Then say the election comes out very close like it did in 2000, when they hit the recount button, Bush wins, and Nader got 0 votes.... odd.
"State officials say there is no need for recounts, or an audit trail, with the touchscreen system because it was designed to prevent people from voting in the same race more than once -- an overvote -- and provide multiple alerts to voters to warn them when they are skipping a race -- an undervote. "
No need for recounts? BAH!
One of the problems the voting machine was supposed to solve is: "Florida's 2000 presidential election fiasco, where thousands of punchcard ballots were improperly marked." The system certainly prevents users from punching the wrong hole due to "butterfly ballots" and misleading instructions, however this doesn't seem to fix the problem where they couldn't count all the votes afterwards to be sure.
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If your climate control is on "defrost" when its 20 degrees out, you are running the air conditioner. Yes, even though the temp selector is on HOT. Cars run the A/C when on defrost to dehumidify the air blown on the windshield.
If you've ever had a car with non-functioning A/C in the northern states, then you already know that the difference is remarkable when you try to clear the windshield. (As opposed to clearing it with a functioning A/C).
Biodiesel is PEOPLE!!! It's PEOPLE!!!!
1.2 GHZ CPU
512 MB RAM
GeForce4 Ti 4200 (128 MB)
Win2000
Since your not using a high performance computer, how can you expect top notch results? Increase your CPU a gig or more, double or quadruple your RAM, and use a non-budget video card. The Ti4200's performance is less than stellar.
WITH RESPECT TO ANY NEW TIVO SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION ACTIVATED ON OR AFTER SEPTEMBER 6, 2005, YOU AGREE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE TIVO SERVICE FOR NO LESS THAN 12 MONTHS (THE "SERVICE COMMITMENT"). IF YOU FAIL TO MEET THE SERVICE COMMITMENT BY CANCELLING YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE TIVO SERVICE (OR IF TIVO TERMINATES YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE TIVO SERVICE DUE TO A BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT), YOU AGREE THAT TIVO MAY CHARGE YOU A $150 EARLY TERMINATION FEE, AND YOU AGREE TO PAY ANY SUCH EARLY TERMINATION FEE.
How about this situation: Purchased a Tivo in Dec 2004. Used and paid for the service until July 2005. Dispute ensued with the cable company regarding overbilling, (specifically after thirty-seven phone calls and 2 certified letters, they STILL failed to change the cable subscription to basic digital after one of those promotions where you get (EVERYTHING) for $29.99/month for 3 months....
Well the everything part never changed after I called at the end of 3 months, and the bill went to over $120/month. So I unplugged it, and cancelled the service (THAT they seemed to get). The court date is pending, and of course I'll win, but in the meantime I cancelled the TIVO and went on an anti-TV crusade for the summer. Moving in December to new digs and will get the even more psychotic dish. This agreement seems to apply to me. Were it not for the flexibility of the TIVO month-to-month, I would have thrown $150 down the crapper..... nuts to that. I'm not resubscribing... I'm ebaying mine to cut my losses.
I work at a place that manufactures "saltwater" chlorine generators. Essentially its a 20-28V variable power supply pushing 8 amps through a "cell" which is really just 7-13 "blades" made of a platinum alloy, fit into a length of PVC pipe. You fit the "cell" into your swimming pools filter line (on the return side), add 300 lbs of salt to your swimming pool, apply the current from the power supply to the cell, and viola! No more need to buy chlorine!
Only difference between this and that tech is that we use salt as the impurity to facilitate current flow, and this device uses potassium hydroxide or hydrochloric acid.
The current splits the NaCl, into Na, and Cl, the Cl does the work of reducing or oxidizing impurities in the pool water, then combines back with the free Na.
Our supply peaks at 250W, and I know some of your car radio systems have single 250W amplifiers, so I doubt that this would bog down your electrical system. Simply put in a bigger (or a second) battery, and a high output alternator for $100 along with it, and the electrical side should be taken care of.
Publix did it (while not national, they are pretty big in the SE USA) - they shut down something like 2 years ago. It was neat to have everything home delivered :)
I've also toyed with the idea of my own personal "beer-livery" service. But just on the local level, and I don't know how I could keep people from ordering, that don't live within a reasonable driving distance.
There is no spoon...
I would agree in theory, in my particular car, a 1989 Pontiac Firebird V6 Auto with OD(long live the Third Gen!) the "sweet spot" in terms of engine RPM happens right around 48-50 MPH. Thats where I am in the highest gear, and the lowest RPM. I'm certain that there are other factors in play at slightly higher RPM, or 55 MPH, like more engine vacuum, EGR valve activation and so on.
Of course the following applies directly to me, I carry around about 600 lbs of equipment in the hatch (jacks, tools, various electronic boxes and or computers that weigh a ton at any time.)
So if I clean all that stuff out of my car, my 25MPG will improve by 12% to 28MPG?
Remove Excess Weight
Avoid keeping unnecessary items in your vehicle, especially heavy ones. An extra 100 pounds in your vehicle could reduce your MPG by up to 2%. The reduction is based on the percentage of extra weight relative to the vehicle's weight and affects smaller vehicles more than larger ones.
Well effing DUH! The elementary laws of electromagnetism, electronics, and the principles of radio are not even taxed! Wanna test this another way? Get on a high speed train and make a cell phone call, or just drive on the freeway really fast and do the same. IT IS JUST ORDINARY RADIO!!!!!!!
Now that that is out, did they really think it might not work?
Here is a link to a late 2003 transistor build that topped 500 ghz. They've been making transistors well into microwave range since the 60's. I've heard of people talking via amateur radio using the 100+ghz band quite regularly, so I know for sure that we've been able to break 100 ghz for a decade easily.
600Ghz is only a few dozen ghz more than the 509 ghz build of a year and a half ago.
It's not the distance light can travel in that time period that matters. Typically its also not a "signal" every 1.6 picoseconds, its a change in polarity or electromotive force (i.e. Volts). You would utilize such a device more efficiently in class C operation, where the transistor is biased above ground, and only conducts for 180 degrees.
Think of it like a hose that you squeeze and let go of 600 billion times a second. The electrons don't have to necessarily change direction, just magnitude (and following ohms law, current) 600 billion times a second.
Whom is beating who? According to the linked site, WoW has far greater numbers than EQ2.
This isn't news.
Who the Eff is Lenovo? Or Levono for that matter (it's spelled both ways in the post.)
We have an "unknown" brand, as in there is no makers name on our voting machines, here in Broward County Florida. We are given a yellow slip of paper looking much like a raffle ticket - after clearing the registration people who check your name in a book, and you sign.
The lady puts a device the size of a paperback into the side of my voting machine, which after about 30 seconds brings up a ballot. She explains that when I'm done, I should review, and press the blinking red VOTE button.
When I'm done, I press vote, and after 10 seconds, it thanks me for voting, and goes back to a blank screen.
Makes me think the voting is actually centralized.
Try using evaporative cooling, like a nuclear cooling tower for your PC. That'll get it a few degrees below ambient, but you have to keep refilling it.
Hmmm faster than lightspeed. Mate two 9-volts pos-neg and throw it really hard?
Of course that won't work, because electricity travels NEAR the speed of light. So why do headlights work when I'm driving? Technically I'm shining a light, which is traveling AT the speed of light. But I'm also moving my car. And at that same token, if I'm driving west, the rotation of the earth should give the light coming out of my headlights a bit more speed as well. Factor in revolution, solar system movement, galaxy expansion, universe expansion, doppler effect, my headlights should travel backwards in time!
Touche. I just had a thought when I read that. When the speed of electrons through a conductor becomes a limit, perhaps the cpu and the rest of the electronics will start running behind. i.e. clock cycle happens, and another starts before the first has propagated. It should still get there, just maybe not before another one is on its way. At that point I should hope we are working on ways to get more done each clock cycle.
I tend to like the speed CPU's are at these days. The old Pentium 133-166, and more particularly the P2 350-450 and all those K6's caused quite a bit of interference back in there day in the VHF range. Shielded cases be damned! I don't even know where my case cover is these days.
As electricity travels through a conductor, or semi-conductor, all of the electrons move as whole. Example: Imagine a wire 8 miles long, if you insert a signal at one end at 6 GhZ the first electron jumps atoms, and influences that atoms electrons to jump to the next one. This continues at quite near the speed of light. The frequency at which this occurs only matters because of the so-called "skin effect" (current tends to travel more and more on the outside skin of a conductor, the higher in frequency of such alternating current.
So in other words, it wouldn't matter if the CPU were operating at 250GhZ. It's wavelength does not limit "how far the signal goes". The signal will go anywhere there is a conductor.
Wavelength (very basically, the inverse of frequency, given in meters travelled by "one" electron in one direction during one cycle, if the inverse is taken in Hz) at 3.6GhZ is very short. While that one electron may not travel the entire distance through a CPU, it WILL influence the other electrons in that conductor or semi conductor.
In conclusion, you may be correct that a single ELECTRON may not traverse the entire CPU, but rest assured that the signal certainly will.
My old employer (1998-2002) had these all over the place. Very high res pan and zoom color cameras. The only effect was to give the security guards who literally sat in the booth, something to look at.
Most of their time was spent trying to look down females shirts, or to spot the occasional panty flash when they bent down (It was a call center...)
$200.00 minimum bid for a black leather ergonomic rolling office chair?
You could get a whole lot more accurate if you read the posts that explain exactly how to calculate mach.
Not even close. I wear armor which has been imbued by a Reactive Ablative Arcanium Armor Tincture in Dark Age of Camelot. It basically has a chance to create a magical shell, which absorbs 50% of damage taken for a total of 100 hit points.
I find it completely unacceptable that there is seemingly NO WAY to independently verify an election with these machines. Apparently, so much trust is placed in them, that a "recount isn't necessary" because the machines are flawless. Gimme a break! The elections officials also are unaware of the issue as well, trying to sidestep the issue at hand, that they put in a system that cannot be verified.
"The machines, made by Election Systems & Software of Omaha, Neb., fail to provide a consistent electronic "event log" of voting activity when asked to reproduce what happened during the election, state officials said."
So in other words, every vote is not entered into a separate event log due to a bug. So say the system crashes midday, they are then unable to verify the votes cast, because the backup event log is not 100% accurate. I am guessing the log is for a manual recount, and it likely ensures that the system cannot be tampered with... Say it doesn't write 1 of every 5 Kerry votes, then it doesn't write any Nader votes. Then say the election comes out very close like it did in 2000, when they hit the recount button, Bush wins, and Nader got 0 votes.... odd.
"State officials say there is no need for recounts, or an audit trail, with the touchscreen system because it was designed to prevent people from voting in the same race more than once -- an overvote -- and provide multiple alerts to voters to warn them when they are skipping a race -- an undervote. "
No need for recounts? BAH!
One of the problems the voting machine was supposed to solve is: "Florida's 2000 presidential election fiasco, where thousands of punchcard ballots were improperly marked."
The system certainly prevents users from punching the wrong hole due to "butterfly ballots" and misleading instructions, however this doesn't seem to fix the problem where they couldn't count all the votes afterwards to be sure.
With all the ancient people that live in this fine state. We'll get it together just in time to fudge it up again. :)